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Article: The surreptitious shutterbug. (Flip Side).(industrial spies photograph prototypes)(Brief Article)
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- Chief Executive (U.S.)
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- July 1, 2002
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Uh-oh, Bernd Rauh is back in the news. Surely you remember Bernd Rauh, the retired car racer who is now one of the world's foremost prototype photographers? The guy who skulks around Bavarian forests scoping out shots of the newest car models while they're still at the testing phase? The guy whose 1997 shots of German car engineers tipping over a Mercedes prototype actually resulted in the company taking the car off the market and sending it back to the shop? Yup, that Bernd Rauh.
The details of Rauh's adventures were recently laid out in an article in The Wall Street Journal shedding light on the shadowy world of "car spies." According to the paper, Rauh once ...